Jenson Button: “It?óÔé¼Ôäós been more getting the tyres to work rather than looking after the degradation. I think last year we had some races, especially in China, where it was very difficult. This year it’s been the other way round, it?óÔé¼Ôäós been about getting it into the working window. Formula One we’ve always run on four tyres ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ well, we haven’t always, but we have in our racing! ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ and there’s always degradation, it’s just a matter of how much.”

Nico Rosberg: “Two drivers raised concerns about it so we need to discuss it. If there was a danger, which I didn’t cause on purpose, then we need to implement rules so that it doesn’t arise again. We could look at implementing more rules in that situation because it is not very clear, but it can be looked at.”

“The argument that F1 had a contract to fulfil is a specious one. The obligation to see out a contract, even more than patriotism, is a last refuge. It is more honourable to walk away from a rotten contract than to “honour” it. The sport should never be allowed to forget what it did in Bahrain last month. It should be reminded at regular intervals of the self-inflicted damage it sustained.”

Comment of the day

For Webber to pull off that move in Eau Rouge, there had to be complete trust and respect between the two drivers. Alonso and Webber are definitely two of the best about that, and I like that Alonso is calling for more of it. After the Hamilton and Massa crash course extravaganza of last season, I am inclined to agree with him.Adam Tate

F1F has improved over time as far as quality of content goes @keith, but the comments pages are being bludgeoned and have been for a long while now. I imagine that regular posters who are contentious yet stay within the bounds of blog rules help boost site traffic. But there is a glaring gap these days, in my view, between the quality of site content and the quality of the exchanges on the site. You know, on a human level. Reading the comments on F1F used to put a smile on my face. not a satisfied ‘I won my argument’ smile, but a ‘man, what a cool site with cool people’ kinda smile. One reason why that’s much more rarely true these days is that many good natured people who used to come around don’t anymore. Doesn’t mean they haven’t been replaced I guess. But the vibe here has changed and not for the better.

I have to say I strongly agree. I’ve noticed that a number of posts have been removed from this articles comments section today – and approriately so.

My humble offering is that there are a small number of contributers – some registered and some guests – who seem to dominate certain discussions.

My observation (which is only my view) is that it appears that a certain registered user feels it necessary to place a large number of comments accross multiple threads and also within a single thread. The style of these at times can appear authorative, abrasive, and negatively critical.

This has engaged a number of other contributers to react – rightly or wrongly.

The impossible task for Keith and the team is to monitor the spirit of what’s being said. It may be that if a contributor has a style as I suggested above, they attract attention and people merely wish to engage that person ad infinitum.

But hey, the debate over internet freedom/censorship has been raging for years. So what do you do?

I want to apologise. I have been engaging the individual mentioned above – and probably at times inappropriately. I suppose the best way to allow my irritation at certain things said is to allow them to be seen for what they are – rather than engage them to the nth degree.

This is clearly the best F1 site around in both quantity of editorial produced and the quality therein.

I want to support keith in his endeavours not create problems for him.

@maciek When I last caught up on this comment thread I was unhappy with what I found. As @aj13 pointed out quite a few comments have now been removed. I never like removing comments but some of the contributions on here simply weren’t up to the standard that’s expected. People who want to troll and insult others can go elsewhere.

@keith
I certainly appreciate that it mustn’t be easy to manage the comments sections while maintaining as much freedom for everyone to express their views as possible. And lord knows that everyone can come off abrasive once in a while, myself included. But beyond comments that may come off as directly insulting to others or as various forms of trolling, the daily F1F comment threads have become dominated (over say, the past year, or so) by commenting that is formally within the rules, yet – in my own personal, one guy opinion – has worked to the detriment of people interested in pleasant exchanges with other fans and to the advantage of others whose attitude tends to be hostile and domineering. And sometimes I’m left feeling slightly puzzled that that’s tolerated. Of course this is wholly subjective on my part, and it’s easy for me to talk when I’m not the one with the responsibilities, but there you are.